joyce the hotel rooms the elevator us the gateway to the ground in period should the torch was pushed coromandel you can a letter to the socialist good to see don't have to go and. read this and the colonel was hotels treat. today's top stories and the review of the week from r.t. the song the task of recovery rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. relatives and investigators are looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so fast we'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. the apologies keep coming and so did the arrests rupert murdoch once again says sorry for the phone hacking by one of these british papers as his former c.e.o. in the u.k. is detained by police. banking on change libyan rebels who now have full

diplomatic recognition from washington and with this access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. . intercontinental cash crunch is america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion calls more pressure on the euro. you're watching me weekly on t.v. with the main headlines of the past week and also the latest developments. it's being described as the biggest voting disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people on board went down in the volga river taking over heart of its passengers with it and one hundred thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway as tom

gotten reports. the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further down stream and they're attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write little garrett was leaning on his left side and then once they've arrived at it they'll be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are due to the way under speed the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be ready to be raise and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which have still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going to have to first

of all try and find essentially the hole to let in all the water and some of the ship once they have found out they'll want to seal that hole and all the other counts on the ship so that once it's partially raise be able to pump out the water from the ship making it light enough to raise it more easily a very complex operation visibility in the water is very poor for the divers there's a lot of alga in the water at this time and so it's proving to be a drawn out process but one that is crucial for all those people waiting for answers a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played. they are flowers and candles a testament to the children those who drowned in the pleasure boat that will carry a sanction that will last sunday. we started together for a year she never had arguments with the one she was very kind girl and was always

ready to help. ships. in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror didn't just desires of people who were basically buried alive and try michael coughing he managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she saw i too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son and a strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front yury was the d.j. for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw through to the sailor started pushing

people like through it at that moment on the surface and then i saw the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made itself meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. from . the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just

something of the lives lost and families to. stroy in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal thora say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people it was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of pounds including

a broken engine and tricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reached the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the police passers by in a different direction towards because on. a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young

victims in what will go. was one of russia's worst and most affordable shipping disasters on bottom part. the captain of a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking of the area has been describing the roof it disaster scene in an interview with r.t. and you can see it in full in just over an hour from now or find it online right now on our website or to come there we have all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operations since the tragedy happened and you can keep up to date there and while you're online remember to check out our you choose channel or videos of the solve each mission. is.

the. former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's engulfed the now defunct news of the world and emotion he's a former intelligence officer for m i thought i told me earlier that she believes the timing of this arrest raises a lot of questions they ask is one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind and one might think that the police by taking this step at this stage are allowing her little wriggle room have to say too much in pat's and so we've had to take much about her into the leader for great service in london as well for its very very interesting timing the amount of information it is not just about me in communication between news international and the police i mean it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the ballot and

legibly corrupt insult. says that it would be receiving money to provide protected information and of course it's not just about the phone hacking scandal there are other practices their peers have been implicated such as the technique of pinging where you triangulate some of the location using our mobile phones now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for counterterrorism branch office special branch or potentially of course this is so where and where all this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight as well within the police force. it will be a little early here in r.t. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's a crumbling reputation he spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with full page newspaper events while also meeting the family of a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted owners reports is a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians press.

every media outlet and down t.v. radio even the scariest part imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at it rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police of have since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they got probably facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v.

giant piece guy be looked sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. it into investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian or the daily telegraph. that it's not just a rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labels. party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead.

you know. that would suit a government just fine they put it press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its student government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to help and print journalists back in springfield mr byrne this thought it was the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible to control the media because of rupert murdoch. murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he upsets it consolidate control over a lot section of the case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him

and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years laurette it's obscene. still ahead this hour on r.t. worries about debt default we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. and rev square a four wheeled frenzy is high speed formula one super cars screeched through the center of moscow. the first a new round of nato airstrikes has rattled the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi vowed never. to leave this country in the face of assault and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate authority in a country in the eyes of more nations the u.s. and more than thirty other states recognize them at a diplomatic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim government is in place recognition contact group all media also gives the rebels

access and winds of dollars have a definite present assets in your us banks it's a commentator ted rule says the move is a radical shift from the international stand. the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that is in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you could look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and enjoyed diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing that it's a bizarre situation if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been

a very high component of jihadi feeding around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. doesn't have it up shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and really going to happen. time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out it's that that ninety different nations fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling is looming ever closer as normal struggle to find a compromise as in the bombers urging democrats and republicans to ignore that of course is to avert armageddon due to credit rating agencies say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve that they're not quickly or effectively and even if the budget is approved fund managers say it's unlikely to solve the problem of americans. the united states already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows it united states is the largest debtor nation in

the history of the world look at the bear you have the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase again ceiling for the moment there's no question about their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chain saw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for this to get the budget ceiling passed but it's going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollars. things are a little better i should say things are a little better in europe with this illy now the focus of attempts to stop the euro zone from falling into oblivion realms approved a tough seventy billion euro cut package to avoid the need to ask for a bailout it's the euro zone's third largest economy too big for its neighbors to say meanwhile eight out of ninety eight european banks to fail stress test to see

if they could survive another financial crisis what is your m p paul nuttall believes the latest developments prove the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a colonies in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to read the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back on their national policies to devalue growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can because they're there because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or listen or even talk of the people out on the streets and athens i just wonder how long it will be because the people out in the streets in rome ran in lisbon and in top of this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue now threesome the european union italy italy is the third largest

economy in the euro zone of late largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal very small economy if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because italy goes italy's economy is intertwined with spain and of spain and italy grow then we are in serious trouble. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the world in our world update this hour egypt's former president hosni mubarak has reportedly suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers meanwhile the country's prime minister began a major cabinet reshuffle after public protests demanding political reform again flared up in the country the foreign minister has resigned while two new deputy prime ministers have been appointed interim p.m.'s been forced to make changes after widespread anger but little appears to have changed at the top since president mubarak was ousted. the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces the central valley and region has become the first of

several areas where that's to happen head of the end of nato's combat operations in the country and twenty fourteen senior ministers in problem but it is not the event during a visit to the problem. but as one president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy no more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a chimera from his pool of it region he's transferred some powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to a position calls for temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for re-election next year. he was first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drug victims of crime just over a week since the aid of the country was lifted insurgents which rule large parts of somalia impose restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling them anti muslim changed after more than ten million people became afflicted by the crisis as

a result of east africa's worst drought in decades. the taliban has described the assassination of the afghan president's half brother as one of its biggest achievements in a decade ahead of kandahar's provincial council was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday and you know to start valentine who's written extensively on the afghan war says the death is a blow to the u.s. led military effort. he was a power broker provided a lot of stability here the harp which of course is one of the key provinces. a place where your nose grow to where a lot of people the. absence will not affect the drug trafficking there is plenty of other people who are going to step in and. his role as a conduit. so he was actually very political you were. the you were

also the c.e.o. you're somebody who could. represent your interests here in negotiation with the taliban he was considered a very very tough negotiator for the united states he was someone who represented you were hot. and you said so this is a very big coup for the child they will up help them deal with. with his hardline for all. american human rights activists are calling on their country to practice what it preaches when it comes to torture washington often condemns other countries for such methods yet campaigners say controversial u.s. army academies still training officers in brutal interrogation techniques killing four met one torture survivor who's on a mission to get it closed. think it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh she starved and electroshock tech there i received about all for

having a quote subversive book that he lives every day to people have talked to him call on this time very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get tortured for ten days as a stand there and then they get shot and kill many had been disappear after says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america in fort benning georgia army beecher truth of player was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major player says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country a classified. army school. use the words interrogate extortion assassinate. commonly strung it all the way it's for graduates from the school of the americas have been

implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere have been more than sixty thousand soldiers and police have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident of. abuse or of human rights and there was some for eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as the geneva convention but it did happen there's no question that our country not only gauged torture it sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs an internal investigation by the government accountability on. that's so that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contain

because its staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse gayeties unfortunately a military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that he includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad the fact that there is an engagement with the police bodies for example that blew themselves the extensive detractors torture is an embarrassment and perhaps more than an embarrassment to the united states torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices were unable by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by

the cia when president bush says that he waterboarding and he would do it again. and set them right that he had ordered. this so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find survivors like hector's the numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only that person was so forth or for the you know with a big wouldn't because of those on the perpetrator it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big prizes we're killing ford our t. washington d.c. . several last go streets were impossible sunday afternoon but not because of the notorious traffic jams and they were sealed off to temporarily become the realm of

the fast and furious and a high octane performance formula one driver has been some serious rather against the amazing backdrop of the crumbling walls as you can see that was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one stars and the winners of world running championships show helps keep spirits up even as the rain cold gun cation of sunny intervals those you can see that russian f one fans as the. eye getting cited as the country will get its own grown cream in three years time. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments stay with us live here in moscow.

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